painting over greyscale in photoshop?

[iii]

My value is terrible and I was wondering if there was a way to paint over a greyscale in photoshop to where the colors wont come out looking bad? I know in painter you can paint in greyscale, switch to colorize mode and add in the colors but photoshop doesnt have the colorize option.. is there something else photoshop users use?

[Greyhawke]

Do your painting in gray scale. Add additional layers. Change the layer mode to be an overlay layer. They are basically like glazing. If you use a combination of "overlay", "color" and basically any mode that gets the colors you want, then you will be good to go.

After you get all your colors and color shifts in place, you would drop the layers down and then paint opaque for touch ups.

This image was done in this fashion.
http://tangleddreams.blogspot.com/2007/09/lost-city.html

[HFix]

what i do is paint different parts in layers in grayscale then go to the hue/saturation and do colorize and add color that way...you can also paint the whole thing in grayscale and then do selections and then do the hue/saturation...i learned this technique watching a youtube video, hope maybe this helps :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y14g50q4hQ0

[panchosimpson]

what i do is paint different parts in layers in grayscale then go to the hue/saturation and do colorize and add color that way...you can also paint the whole thing in grayscale and then do selections and then do the hue/saturation...i learned this technique watching a youtube video, hope maybe this helps :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y14g50q4hQ0

this method is more of a gimmick really because if you just do hue/sat you're not really painting, the computer is, plus i'd be hesistant to follow that guy in the video's methods becuase he really can't paint all that well.

iii, i would really try to follow the method that Greyhawke describes, you'll learn a whole lot more that way. I took a workshop with Will Weston, who did a lot of the work on backgrounds for Avatar, and he paints in greyscale, then works in subsequent layers set to color, then does opaque touch ups and details.

[iii]

thanks for advice :) what exactly is a opaque touch up?

[HunterKiller_]

thanks for advice :) what exactly is a opaque touch up?

I think he means to make small adjustments in opaque colour, as in a solid colour, i.e. white highlights.

I'm interested in this method of colouring, too actually.
I'm not sure if I totally understand it, though. From what I understand, the painting is done in gray scale with the aim of accurately depicting the value and then paint over it with a flat colour? Or does the saturation of the colour still need to be controlled?

[iii]

I haven't tried it yet, but from how it seems all you have to worry about is the value then u put whatever color u want over it

[Noë]

You can use a color layer or multiply layer on top of the greyscale one to add your colours, and then flatten and make some more details..
It can create nice results :)

Love
Marleen

[Chris Bennett]

I don't know if this will be any help to you - it's a work in progress I'm doing at the moment in photoshop.